Is there not one person on this forum or the history of the forum that's been able to survive without antipsychotics

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I managed close to 2 months of meds cold turkey. Recently got some paranoia, agitation and chronic anxiety. So I had to go back on them on my own will. Perhaps if I fought off those symptoms I could last much longer.

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I went off paliperidone in november 2022, and by november 2023 I was already in the hospital for a month. I was psychotic within weeks of stopping medication, and unbearably psychotic in less than a year. Will I go off meds again? If the physical side effects become unbearable like last time, probably.

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Goodness. One day the grip of psychology over psychiatry will reach the common man and then the patients too. And overturn because at the moment this idea that we can legitimately function without meds gives precedence to us being bad people with weak wills and hence stigma. Thatā€™s my genuine opinion and massive concerns about anyone who entertains the idea that itā€™s not exclusively a medical illnessā€¼ļø

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I donā€™t take Antipsychotics since the last psychosis, 9 years, therefore 18 years without.

I couldnā€™t live with them, subconciousness is dead.

But

I take greens, they prevent psychosis in my case.

Itā€™s a reversed effect, provocate little psychoses to prevent the bigger one.

Edit :

To answer the question : no

My SZ history
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What kind of greens?

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It has 5 to 7 finger leafes, forgotten the name of it

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Iā€™m down to 2.5mg Zyprexa as needed and Iā€™m doing okay. My doctor initially said it would be too low but I was scared by the pre diabetes so she agreed to as needed. Iā€™m not off antipsychotics, but Iā€™m on a very low and infrequent dose, moreso than ever before. If this trend continues I should be off it in 3 or 4 years if Iā€™m lucky.

These things need to be done incredibly gradually and only if youā€™ve shown remarkable recovery outside of the medication.

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I mean itā€™s called sz for a reasonā€¦
Thatā€™s what it doesā€¦ Makes you go crazy. Without the cureā€¦ You go crazy. Not really any way around it unfortunately.

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No, it looks different, more like a bush

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Ruderalis and Indica most likely then.

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I was able to survive on only 5mg abilify for 10 months. Then I had a great idea, what would happen if I stopped taking it altogether? I relapsed.

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I think this ainā€™t ā€œThe Bourne Legacy.ā€ I think that Iā€™m not going to find a hot girlfriend to inject be with a DNA altering substance so that I can give up my blue pills. Maybe Cobenfy really is a red pill though. Or an orange one.

Edit: So, no, me neither. I went off antipsychotics for about 4 or 5 months once on psychiatristā€™s orders; but, I literally stared off into space as in ā€œThe Bourne Legacy.ā€ My psychiatrist put me back on antipsychotics.